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Darwin's Audubon: Science and the Liberal Imagination
Gerald Weissmann
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Description for Darwin's Audubon: Science and the Liberal Imagination
Paperback. Reflections on science, culture, and society, by the acclaimed author of The Woods Hole Cantata and The Doctor with Two Heads Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: AB; JFCX; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 24. Weight in Grams: 484. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
In this retrospective of Gerald Weissmann's best-known essays, the reader is treated to his unique perspective on what C. P. Snow once dubbed "the Two Cultures"-art and science. In Darwin's Audubon, Weissmann examines the powerful influence that the two exert over one another and how they have helped each other evolve. From listening to the scientists who gather ever year to sing at the Woods Hole Cantata Consort to looking at the influence of Audubon's watercolours on Darwin's On the Origin of Species from comparing William Carlos Williams's poetry to his unedited case books to watching Oliver Wendell Holmes grow ... Read more
In this retrospective of Gerald Weissmann's best-known essays, the reader is treated to his unique perspective on what C. P. Snow once dubbed "the Two Cultures"-art and science. In Darwin's Audubon, Weissmann examines the powerful influence that the two exert over one another and how they have helped each other evolve. From listening to the scientists who gather ever year to sing at the Woods Hole Cantata Consort to looking at the influence of Audubon's watercolours on Darwin's On the Origin of Species from comparing William Carlos Williams's poetry to his unedited case books to watching Oliver Wendell Holmes grow ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Basic Books
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Boulder, United States
ISBN
9780738205977
SKU
KAC0004154
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99-2
About Gerald Weissmann
Gerald Weissmann, M.D., is Professor of Medicine and director of the Biotechnology centre at New York University School of Medicine. He has received the Lila Gruber Award for Cancer Research, a Guggenheim fellowship, and the Allesandro Robecchi Prize for Rheumatology.
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